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      {
        "title": "First Morning Tofu chase",
        "excerpt": "Morning Tofu chase\n",
        "content": "Morning Tofu chase\n\n\n\n\n  \n  Cover\n\n\n\n  \n  Panel 1\n\n\n\n  \n  Panel 2\n\n\n\n  \n  Panel 3\n\n\n\n  \n  Panel 4\n\n\n\n  \n  Panel 5\n\n\n\n",
        "url": "/comics/01/"
      },
    
      {
        "title": "Second",
        "excerpt": "\n",
        "content": "\n",
        "url": "/comics/02/"
      },
    
      {
        "title": "Third",
        "excerpt": "\n",
        "content": "\n",
        "url": "/comics/03/"
      },
    
      {
        "title": "Fourth",
        "excerpt": "Morning One\n",
        "content": "Morning One\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
        "url": "/comics/04/"
      },
    
      {
        "title": "Fifth",
        "excerpt": "\n",
        "content": "\n",
        "url": "/comics/05/"
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  {
    "title": "Lynchpin",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "Show your Love \nI am trying to make something worth your support. If you like watching SILENT COMICS, here are a few ways you can help to keep this experimental project on the right track:\n\nMake a pledge\n\nBecome a Founding Supporter\n\nDo you enjoy watching and reading comics for free? Designing good comics takes time and effort, and so does building and maintaining a publishing platform. Most online comics depend on a dreadful revenue model based on advertising, but there must be a better way. In an ideal world, comics should be free to preview online, but first and foremost, they should be free of unsolicited advertising clutter. Still, publishing any independent, advertising-free publication has costs. That’s where subscription is useful. The word subscribe comes from Latin subscribere, which means underwrite. Subscriptions from readers like you can underwrite the cost of creating comics before publication. Here is how you can become a subscriber, a patron, and an active member of SILENT COMICS.\n\nSupport SILENT COMICS on Patreon \n\nBecome a patron of SILENT COMICS on Patreon.\n\n\n\n\n\nSupport SILENT COMICS through Liberapay\n\n\n\n\n\nSupport SILENT COMICS through Flattr\n\n\n\nChampion SILENT COMICS through PayPal \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Monthly : $1,00 USD - monthly\n Yearly : $6,00 USD - yearly\n \nAdd message (optional)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne time donations\n\n Support SILENT COMICS through PayPal\n\nTranslate \nImages are universal; almost everyone, regardless of their country and language, understands them. Wordless comics need no translation, except for their title. In English, Silent Comics is a good metaphor. It gives a context, tells what the project is about. How would you translate these two words?\n\nSee if your language is in the translation page if you want to help1.\n\nHOW ELSE CAN YOU HELP?\n\nMake some noise for Silent Comics \nSpread the word about silent-comics.com (the publishing site):\n\nWrite an article or a review.\nsomething to blog about?\n\nAnswer the survey \nA few questions about digital comics\nTake the SILENT COMICS survey now\n\nUse social media\nwatch and share SILENT COMICS works in progress on Tumblr \n\nfollow / relate / interact with SILENT COMICS on\n\nPinterest \n\nInstagram \n\nFacebook \n\n@SilentComics on Twitter .\n\nSignup to join the heroes list \nBecome a hero, and be ready for comics & special treats when the site launches:\n\n \n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\nor visit the Signup page.\n\nReview code <…/>\nAre you a developer? You can review the theme code for the publishing site, which is currently in development. I’m not a developer so there is room for implementation.\n\nReview Strip, SILENT COMICS WordPress Theme on GitHub\n\nCommission original art \nSoon after the project launches you will be able to commission original artwork from the series. Sign up below to the SILENT COMICS shop on Gumroad and I will keep you posted.\n\n\n\n   Follow \n\n  \n    \n      Short text translations introducing each story release might be welcome in the future. ↩\n    \n  \n\n",
    "url": "/lynchpin/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "MANIFESTO",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n\n\n\n       Silent Comics Manifesto\n\n  1. Wordless\n  2. One Frame Fits All\n  3. Long Form\n  4. Freestyle Graphics\n  5. Add Music\n  6. No advertising\n  SILENT COMICS are like silent films, for comics.\n\n\n    \n\n\n\n\nfor simple digital comics\n\nWith the idea that creativity emerges from constraint, here are the SILENT COMICS project constraints:\n\n1. Wordless\nStrip the strips from text1 to let the drawings do the talking.\n\n2. One Frame Fits All\nThe story reads a single panel2 at a time on any device, filling the screen or the page. Each frame must have the same ratio throughout the whole story to ease online viewing.\n\n3. Long Form\nLong stories divided into small chunks3.\n\n4. Freestyle Graphics\nAny4 graphic styles or techniques will do as long as pictures tell a story in sequences.\n\n5. Add Music\nIn the spirit of silent films, you can watch SILENT COMICS with accompanying music5.\n\n6. No advertising\nAdvertising-based revenue is not a viable model for webcomics. Nor should it be.\n\nSILENT COMICS are like silent films, for comics.\n\nThe result is SILENT COMICS, a collection of visual stories in the making.\n\n\n  Watch books.\n\n\n\n  Comics, Stripped of Words!\n\n\n\n  A reading-free experience! Perfect for people who can’t be bothered to read comics.\n\n\n\n  Love comics, but don’t feel like reading? — Silent comics are for you.\n\n\n\n  Not fond of comics but like picture books? — Silent comics are coming to you on any device, in the universal language of pictures.\n\n\n\n  Not the wordy type? — Watch Silent Comics.\n\n\nVersion 3.3.3 - October 2021\n\n  \n    \n      Remove all dialogues, captions, and onomatopoeia. Elements of text visible in the setting of a scene are fine.  For instance, letters painted on a wall, or a graffiti in the background in a particular story are ok as visual elements. Chapter numbers, subtitles, ISBN, text identifying the book title and its author are acceptable. ↩\n    \n    \n      By design, the online version uses the panel as the smallest unit. The panel ratio is also the base for the grid of future print version. ↩\n    \n    \n      Each post tells a chapter or episode in 12 to 24 panels, very much unlike the three or four panels cartoons of daily strips. Daily strips are a format apart and different. Brevity makes them perfect for the web. Long-form requires more attention and effort from the audience. ↩\n    \n    \n      Traditional tools can give a touch of human fallibility to seamless digital interfaces. Original artwork on paper could be a good idea, but there are no rules. ↩\n    \n    \n      Better yet, pick and share your own musical choice for each story or even compose an original soundtrack yourself. ↩\n    \n  \n\n",
    "url": "/manifesto/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Reading List",
    "excerpt": "Reading List\n",
    "content": "Non exhaustive list of books I read and liked1.\n\n2022\n\n  Anéantir, Michel Houellebecq\n  The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick\n  \n\n\n2021\n\n2020\n\nFiction\n\n  La possibilité d’une île, Michel Houellebecq\n  La Musique, Mishima\n  Le Maître du Haut Chateau, Philip K. Dick\n  Francis Plug Writer in residence, Paul Ewen\n\n\nNon Fiction\n(currently reading)\n\n  The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch\n  Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham\n  Permanent Record, Edward Snowden\n  the personal MBA, Josh Kaufman\n  Save the Cat!, Blake Snyder\n\n\n2019\n\nFiction\n\n  Francis Plug How To Be A Public Author, Paul Ewen\n  Soumission, Michel Houellebecq\n  La Pierre et le Sabre, Eiji Yoshikawa\n  Sérotonine, Michel Houellebecq\n\n\nNon Fiction\n\n  Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari\n\n\n2018\n\nFiction\n\n  A Clergyman’s Daughter, George Orwell\n  Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell\n  Coming up for Air, George Orwell\n  Men without Women, Haruki Murakami\n  Burmese Days, George Orwell\n  Animal Farm, George Orwell\n\n\nNon Fiction\n\n  Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell\n  The Internet Is Not The Answer, Andrew Keen\n\n\n2017\n\nFiction\n\n  La Carte et le Territoire, Michel Houellebecq\n  The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H.P. Lovecraft\n  The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein\n  La Connaissance de la douleur, Carlo Emilio Gadda\n  Le Testament de maître Mussard, Patrick Süskind\n  Men in Space, Tom McCarthy\n\n\nNon Fiction\n\n  Rester Vivant, Michel Houellebecq\n  The Cinema as a Graphic Art, Vladimir Nilsen\n  Summa Technologiae, Stanisław Lem (cont’d)\n  The Attention Merchands, Tim Wu\n  You Don’t Know JS: Up & Going, Jenn Lukas\n\n\n2016\n\nFiction\n\n  Le Secret, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki\n  Le Goût des Orties, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki\n  La Clef, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki\n  Le Tatouage, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki\n  We, Yevgeny Zamyatin\n  The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie\n  Le Baron Perché, Italo Calvino\n  Pulp, Charles Bukowski\n  Hunger, Knut Hamsung\n\n\nNon Fiction\n\n  Summa Technologiae, Stanisław Lem\n  The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker\n  HTML5 for Web Designers, by Jeremy Keith & Rachel Andrew\n  H.P. Lovecraft Against the world, against life, Michel Houellebecq\n\n\n2015\n\n  Zadig, Voltaire\n  Sculpting In Time, Andrei Tarkovsky\n  L’Usage du Monde, Nicolas Bouvier\n  Chronique Japonaise, Nicolas Bouvier\n  Histoire de Charles XII, Voltaire\n  The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White\n  The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber\n\n\n2014\n\n  In Praise of Shadows, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki\n  Quatre Soeurs, (The Makioka Sisters), Jun’ichirō Tanizaki\n  …\n\n\n  \n    \n      No affiliate links and no comments either. Just a simple list. ↩\n    \n  \n\n",
    "url": "/reading-list/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "About",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "SILENT COMICS is an experiment to prototype, design, and publish wordless comics.\nOnline comics should be as beautiful and brand-worthy as their counterpart printed edition.\n\nConstraining the comics form1 but widening its reach, SILENT COMICS aims to re-explore a format with the continuity of storyboards and widescreen comics.\n\nAbout me: Illustrator & Designer, I started this project for the sake of doing something different than client work.\n\nThe blog is a compilation of notes to share this project’s slow progress with you.\n\nOnce ready, comics will appear here and there!\n\n\n  Do you love comics, but don’t feel like reading? — I’m drawing silent comics for you.\n\n\nYou can also check the progress graph if you are curious about how and where the project is going. Thank you for your interest.\n\nTo support SILENT COMICS, click on the heart  to show your love.\n\nThank you!\n\n\n  \n    \n      See the SILENT COMICS manifesto. ↩\n    \n  \n\n",
    "url": "/about/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Posts by Category",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n",
    "url": "/categories/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Posts by Collection",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n  <h2 id=\"comics\" class=\"archive__subtitle\">comics</h2>\n\n\n\n  \n    \n    \n      \n        First Morning Tofu chase\n\n      \n    \n    \n    Morning Tofu chase\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n    \n    \n      \n        Second\n\n      \n    \n    \n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n    \n    \n      \n        Third\n\n      \n    \n    \n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n    \n    \n      \n        Fourth\n\n      \n    \n    \n    Morning One\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n    \n    \n      \n        Fifth\n\n      \n    \n    \n    \n\n  \n\n\n  <h2 id=\"essays\" class=\"archive__subtitle\">essays</h2>\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n\n\n  <h2 id=\"music\" class=\"archive__subtitle\">music</h2>\n\n\n",
    "url": "/collection-archive/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Comics",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n    </a>\n\n    \n\n\n  First Morning Tofu chase\n\n  \n    First episode\n    You fucked up my planet. Don't do that ever again\n    \n    \n      Fedor Fuct (Archdux of the Moon)\n\n    \n      Ingnum Fuct (House of Fuct Heiress)\n\n    \n      Jompadin (Friend)\n\n    \n      Magar (Animal)\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n    </a>\n\n    \n\n\n  Second\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n    </a>\n\n    \n\n\n  Third\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n    </a>\n\n    \n\n\n  Fourth\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n    </a>\n\n    \n\n\n  Fifth\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n",
    "url": "/comics/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Contact",
    "excerpt": "Contact for suggestions & questions\n",
    "content": "Have questions about SILENT COMICS project, this website, or the future of comics?\n\nSend short messages via Twitter or write an email to hoa//at//silent-comics.com.\n",
    "url": "/contact/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Essays",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n",
    "url": "/essays/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "ISSUES",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "00\n\n(Issue 00 is just a formatting test)\n\n\n\n\n01\n\nComing soon\n\nSign up here for upcoming stories\n",
    "url": "/issues/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Music",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n",
    "url": "/music/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "NOTES",
    "excerpt": "Silent Comics — Development log\n",
    "content": "\n  \n    Search:\n    \n\n    \n        \n    \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease enable JavaScript to use the search form.\n\n",
    "url": "/notes/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Now",
    "excerpt": "What I’m doing right now\n",
    "content": "What am I doing right now?\n\n\n  Travelling in Europe\n  Drawing artisanal, handcrafted comics for SILENT COMICS\n\n\nInterested about the SILENT COMICS project’s latest developments? You can check the experiment progress anytime, thanks to a simple text file. The file is updated regularly, as the project evolves; it is called: progress.\n\nProgress .txt\n\n\n  \n    Learning animation\n  \n  \n    Drafting a concertina book\n  \n  \n    Listening to music\n  \n  \n    Drawing people and things\n  \n  \n    Writing short stories\n  \n  \n    Starting series (a fictional brochure and various illustration projects)\n  \n  \n    Freelancing as an illustrator / designer and as a story artist\n  \n  \n    Reading\n  \n\n",
    "url": "/now/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Sitemap",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "\n  \n    \n      A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there is an [XML version]({{ “sitemap.xml”\n      absolute_url }}) to chew on.\n    \n  \n\n\nPages\n{% for post in site.pages %}\n  {% include archive-single.html %}\n{% endfor %}\n\nPosts\n{% for post in site.posts %}\n  {% include archive-single.html %}\n{% endfor %}\n\n{% capture written_label %}’None’{% endcapture %}\n\n{% for collection in site.collections %}\n{% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == “posts” %}\n  {% capture label %}{{ collection.label }}{% endcapture %}\n  {% if label != written_label %}\n{{ label }}\n{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %}\n  {% endif %}\n{% endunless %}\n{% for post in collection.docs %}\n  {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == “posts” %}\n  {% include archive-single.html %}\n  {% endunless %}\n{% endfor %}\n{% endfor %}\n",
    "url": "/sitemap/"
  },
  
  {
    "title": "Posts by Year",
    "excerpt": "\n",
    "content": "{% capture written_year %}’None’{% endcapture %}\n{% for post in site.posts %}\n  {% capture year %}{{ post.date | date: ‘%Y’ }}{% endcapture %}\n  {% if year != written_year %}\n    <h2 id=\"{{ year | slugify }}\" class=\"archive__subtitle\">{{ year }}</h2>\n    {% capture written_year %}{{ year }}{% endcapture %}\n  {% endif %}\n  {% include archive-single.html %}\n{% endfor %}\n",
    "url": "/year-archive/"
  }
  
]